Basketball pro Indira Kaljo ready to fight FIBA over hijab
From the playgrounds of California to the pro game in Europe, Indira Kaljo made it to the highest level of basketball without truly standing out from the crowd. As a […]
Abdul-Aleem’s hoop dreams are set in Mecca
Athletes are rarely afforded the opportunity to write their own ending. For every one who makes it all the way to the professional level and gets to retire from their […]
11 Muslim players to watch at the World Cup
Muslim players have been an integral part of the fabric of soccer — ahem, football — for as long as the game has been the international pastime. It’s only natural […]
Is pro basketball ready for Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir?
A lot of people would call Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir an overachiever. But then, who are any of us to put a limit on what a 5-foot-4 Muslim girl from Springfield, Mass., […]
UAE weightlifter Amna Al Haddad eyes the 2016 Olympics
During an early-May training session in Dubai, 24-year-old weightlifter Amna Al Haddad was attempting to hoist more than two-thirds of her body weight above her head when one of her […]
CFL linebacker Abraham Kromah was born to lead
The low point of Abraham Kromah’s professional life turned out to be perhaps the best thing that could have happened to him personally. In the spring of 2011, following his […]
Gold medalist Hossein Rezazadeh lifted a nation
For all of the existential prose and philosophical poetry that has been written about the game of baseball, there is no sport that metaphorically mirrors the human experience more accurately […]
